A few days ago we received word from ATI about their new Catalyst 7.10 drivers which are supposed to bring a list of performance optimizations to the table. The drivers are available for both Windows XP and Vista in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. There is no mention whether the optimizations are OS specific but looking at the list of games that are supposed to get dramatic speed-ups, there is a mix of everything from DirectX9 titles, DirectX10 and OpenGL.

Popular titles like Bioshock, Battlefield 2142, Company of Heroes, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, FEAR, World in Conflict, are all getting substantial performance bumps according to ATI's release notes, from 10% to up to 80% improvements for both single card and Crossfire performance.

* Battlefield 2142: CrossFire performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon X1300/X1550
* BioShock DX10 CrossFire performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products
* Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire ATI Radeon HD2600 and ATI Radeon HD2400 configurations
* Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products
* Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon HD2900 and ATI Radeon HD2600 products
* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon HD2x00 and ATI Radeon X1x00 series of products
* FEAR CrossFire performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
* Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 series of products
* Supreme Commander CrossFire performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 and ATI Radeon X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
* World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon HD2900XT and ATI Radeon HD2600 products
* World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon HD2x00 products